Joe Wells

About

Joe Wells’ writing career began when his first book ‘Touch and Go Joe’ about his experiences of OCD was published. Since then he has made a name for himself as a stand-up comic, writer and speaker. Joe now focuses mainly on his unique brand of political comedy and in 2012, Joe was asked to support Alexei Sayle on his comeback tour.

Joe is now frequently performing stand up in comedy clubs around the UK. Night of the Living Tories was Joe’s debut hour long stand up show, in which he dug up the corpses of the British Conservative Party of the past and put them on display to horrifying consequence. Joe took his follow up show, 10 Thing I Hate About UKIP, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 and in 2017 took I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative.

Watch Joe Wells’s Stand-Up Special

Joe believes in creating a kinder, more tolerant and equal society. Despite this he spends most of his time sneering at people he disagrees with. He’s everything that’s wrong with the political left but he’s trying to change. Can Joe learn to love the people whose politics we hate?

Well’s ‘angry lefty’ style of comedy has led him to support Alexei Sayle on tour, open for Frankie Boyle at the Leicester Square theatre in 2015, and the Pleasance Islington in 2016, and various TV and Radio appearances including BBC Radio 4 Extra, ‘No Pressure To Be Funny’ and Amnesty International’s ‘Human TV’.

Three Weeks wrote that Joe “handles heavy topics with the care they require and shows comedy doesn’t need to harm people: indeed, it’s all the better for not doing so” and with his intelligent style of building jokes, Wells has earned himself an impressive reputation with reviewers and audiences alike.

Alongside comedy, Wells has done writing work for ‘The Revolution Will Be Televised Series 2’ and ‘Have I got News For You’ .

His latest project is called ‘Think Tank’ – a live show and podcast which combines politics and stand-up, where comedians put forward ideas to a panel of real life politicians. Wells sites Doug Stanhope as one of his biggest inspirations and hopes that this show will inspire discussion long after his set has finished.